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GENUS BOUTELOUA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Forage grasses

Synonyms:

Bouteloua; genus Bouteloua

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Bouteloua" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "genus Bouteloua"):

grama; grama grass; gramma; gramma grass (pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America)

Holonyms ("genus Bouteloua" is a member of...):

family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)

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